Lexical Summary pere: a wild donkey Original Word: פֶרֶאTransliteration: pere Phonetic Spelling: (peh'-reh) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a wild donkey Meaning: a wild donkey Strong's Concordance wild ass Or pereh (Jeremiah 2:24) {peh'-reh}; from para' in the secondary sense of running wild; the onager -- wild (ass). see HEBREW para' Brown-Driver-Briggs H6501. pere מֶּ֫רֶא noun masculineJob 39:5 (masculine and feminine Jeremiah 2:24, but feminine probably erroneous, compare KöSynt. 157 AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 68) wild ass (probably from swiftness); — ׳פ absolute Hosea 8:9 + (so Jeremiah 2:24 Gi; van d. H. Baer מֶּרֶךְ), construct Genesis 16:12; plural מְּרָאִים Jeremiah 14:6 +; — wild ass 14:6; Job 6:5; 39:5; Isaiah 32:14; Psalm 104:11; פ ׳עַיִר Job 11:12 wild ass's colt; ׳פ אָדָם Genesis 16:12 (J) a wild ass of a man (Ishmael as a free nomad); figurative of wilfulness Hosea 8:9 (see I. בָּדַד); of lust Jeremiah 2:24 (i.e. Israel's love of idolatry); of poor desert-dwellers Job 24:5. |
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